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that's what's at stake here for us. it's really not a question about whether people like president obama or whether he doesn't, whether they don't. and i frankly think that president obama has done great disservice to what his ideals were and why we elected him in the first place in 2008, which was around the questions of transparency and human rights. and that's the piece that we actually need to keep our eye in the next four years. >> you mentioned senator ron wyden a moment ago. he is on the senate select committee. he's allowed to know the legal rational that's being offered for targeted killing, as well as all the countries where the killing is where it's happening. but even he can't get answers. and he's promised to bring these issues up at john brennan's confirmation hearings for cia director coming pretty soon. what questions would you put to john brennan when he goes before the congress to testify on behalf of his nomination for director of the cia? >> i'm not going to quibble with them on the fact that they ar
that's what's at stake here for us. it's really not a question about whether people like president obama or whether he doesn't, whether they don't. and i frankly think that president obama has done great disservice to what his ideals were and why we elected him in the first place in 2008, which was around the questions of transparency and human rights. and that's the piece that we actually need to keep our eye in the next four years. >> you mentioned senator ron wyden a moment ago. he is...
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the merger of american and us air, giving us only four major airlines and less competition. comcast buying nbc universal, also reducing competition. the very wealthy getting a trivial increase in taxes while the payroll tax of working people will go from 4.2% to 6.2%. colossal salaries escalating again, many subsidized by tax payers. the postal service ending service on saturday. what's the picture you get from that montage of headlines? >> well, for me it is captured by the european word "austerity." we're basically saying that even though the widening gap between rich and poor built us up, many of the factors that plunged us into a crisis, instead of dealing with them and fixing that problem, we're actually allowing the crisis to make the inequality worse. the latest research from the leading two economists, saez from the university of california in berkeley, and piketty in france confirms that even over the last five years of the crisis, through 2012, the inequality of wealth and income has gotten worse, as though we are determined not to deal with it. all of those headli
the merger of american and us air, giving us only four major airlines and less competition. comcast buying nbc universal, also reducing competition. the very wealthy getting a trivial increase in taxes while the payroll tax of working people will go from 4.2% to 6.2%. colossal salaries escalating again, many subsidized by tax payers. the postal service ending service on saturday. what's the picture you get from that montage of headlines? >> well, for me it is captured by the european word...
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>> us, all of us. what's happened is that these enormous telecommunications companies, comcast and time warner on the wired side, verizon and at&t on the wireless side, have divided up markets, put themselves in the position where they're subject to no competition and no oversight from any regulatory authority. and they're charging us a lot for internet access and giving us second class access. this is a lot like the electrification story from the beginning of the 20th century. initially electricity was viewed as a luxury. so when f.d.r. came in, 90% of farms didn't have electricity in america at the same time that kids in new york city were playing with electric toys. and f.d.r. understood how important it was for people all over america to have the dignity and self-respect and sort of cultural and social and economic connection of an electrical outlet in their home. so he made sure to take on the special interests that were controlling electricity then who had divided up markets and consolidated just
>> us, all of us. what's happened is that these enormous telecommunications companies, comcast and time warner on the wired side, verizon and at&t on the wireless side, have divided up markets, put themselves in the position where they're subject to no competition and no oversight from any regulatory authority. and they're charging us a lot for internet access and giving us second class access. this is a lot like the electrification story from the beginning of the 20th century....
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and the election was pretty darn close. >> using public funding -- >> using public funding. so if you look across the country, there's all sorts of evidence of people who spent a lot of money in campaigns, who spent more money than their opponents and lost because having more money and having a lot of money doesn't make you a better candidate. what matters is having a threshold, an amount of money that's sufficient to run a credible campaign. and that's what citizen funding allows you to do. it allows you to get that amount of money that lets you run a credible campaign, be a good candidate connecting with your voters and do it in a way that's focusing your attention on ordinary citizens. >> but how does it undo the power of big money? >> well, so mayor bloomberg's an outlier. there aren't so many candidates like that. listen, we're never going to keep private money out of politics. that's the wrong ambition. the goal is to -- >> you're not saying we should? >> we shouldn't and we can't -- >> yeah, that's right. but citizens united makes it impossible. >> they have opened th
and the election was pretty darn close. >> using public funding -- >> using public funding. so if you look across the country, there's all sorts of evidence of people who spent a lot of money in campaigns, who spent more money than their opponents and lost because having more money and having a lot of money doesn't make you a better candidate. what matters is having a threshold, an amount of money that's sufficient to run a credible campaign. and that's what citizen funding allows...
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what are the standards you use, the criteria against which you make lending decisions?" and the guy looked at me, smiled smugly and said, "if they can fog a mirror, we'll give 'em a loan." >> my name is christopher cruise. i was a trainer of mortgage loan originators throughout the country. there was a plano, texas office in countrywide, and people would sidle up to me, saying, "you wouldn't believe what's happening around here. you wouldn't believe the loans i've been getting approved here." they were justlabbgast at at wld..whatas going through the pipeline. >> these are still on the books. did you know that? >> narrator: christopher cruise describes an industry driven to loosen its standards by demand from new york. >> you got the sense that wall street was in control of underwriting standards and not the mortgage industry. >> smith: what do you mean? >> well, if the underwriting was acceptable to wall street, if the underwriting was acceptable to the ratings agencies, that's all that counted. and so my sense is, it was probably a game among the people in the mortgage
what are the standards you use, the criteria against which you make lending decisions?" and the guy looked at me, smiled smugly and said, "if they can fog a mirror, we'll give 'em a loan." >> my name is christopher cruise. i was a trainer of mortgage loan originators throughout the country. there was a plano, texas office in countrywide, and people would sidle up to me, saying, "you wouldn't believe what's happening around here. you wouldn't believe the loans i've been...
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banks are the catalyst to get us out of this morass that we're in. you can talk so long about the past, but at some point, you've got to look at the present and the future. and i thought that's what he was saying. >> narrator: the president had decided. he would wait on reforming wall street, and adopt the cautious apoach. >> i think theresident sees himself as a pragmatist: "let's get through this. let's be pragmatic. let's not shoot for the moon and miss. let's accomplish as much as we can, but let's do it with the certainty that we know we can produce by taking this a little more cautiously." >> narrator: and the president required no firm commitments from the bankers. >> i think it's clear it was an opportunity lost. he had a room full of very frightened ceos. he was in a position then to make demands, and didn't. >>e didn't wt toistu the banks. he wanted them on their side so that things were as calm as possible. there would be basically business as usual. >> today the obama administration did indeed extend them an olive branch. >> it looks like
banks are the catalyst to get us out of this morass that we're in. you can talk so long about the past, but at some point, you've got to look at the present and the future. and i thought that's what he was saying. >> narrator: the president had decided. he would wait on reforming wall street, and adopt the cautious apoach. >> i think theresident sees himself as a pragmatist: "let's get through this. let's be pragmatic. let's not shoot for the moon and miss. let's accomplish as...
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was a family member who was willing to give us an e-mail that gave us some really good information about adam that had not been out there before. we learned through this e-mail that while peter and nancy did get divorced in 2009, peter actually had been out of the house in 2001. >> peter lanza continued to support his family financially. >> narrator: the e-mail also said that adam as a young boy had been diagnosed with sensory integration disorder-- a not widely accepted diagnosis involving difficulties processing and reacting to stimuli. later, in middle school, the family member said adam would receive another diagnosis: asperger's, a form of autism that interferes with social interan. >> i want to talk a little bit about the middle school years. because isn't this when we start to hear about adam having problems that go beyond just the diagnosis of sensory integration? >> we were told around middle school... the middle school years. >> right. there was the initial diagnosis, and then the diagnosis of asperger's. >> and that goes to... social isolation, inability to communicate with ot
was a family member who was willing to give us an e-mail that gave us some really good information about adam that had not been out there before. we learned through this e-mail that while peter and nancy did get divorced in 2009, peter actually had been out of the house in 2001. >> peter lanza continued to support his family financially. >> narrator: the e-mail also said that adam as a young boy had been diagnosed with sensory integration disorder-- a not widely accepted diagnosis...
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trust us and we're going to use it so that you fulfill your campaign promises." >> narrator: majority leader cantor had laid out an approach that would put the new congress in direct conflict with the white house. >> it was clear the republicans were going to try to extract some price. and i think the question was, how significant would that price be? and how unyielding would the republicans be in order to get it? >> narrator: cantor thought he could count on the new members because he had worked hard to get them elected. >> america is at a crossroads, and washington remains out of touch. there is a better way, and a new team is ready to bring america back. eric cantor, kevin mccarthy, paul ryan, joined by common- sense conservatives... >> narrator: cantor had teamed up with his closest allies to form their own political action committee. >> together they are the young guns. >> this is the young guns. they have a book. they have a website. they're the new face of the republican party, and as mccarthy told me, paul is the brains, mccarthy is the strategist, cantor is the leader. >> nar
trust us and we're going to use it so that you fulfill your campaign promises." >> narrator: majority leader cantor had laid out an approach that would put the new congress in direct conflict with the white house. >> it was clear the republicans were going to try to extract some price. and i think the question was, how significant would that price be? and how unyielding would the republicans be in order to get it? >> narrator: cantor thought he could count on the new...
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there's hundreds of us-- hundreds, thousands of us. look, 31,000 scientists and engineers signed a statement to the contrary to what you just read. >> hockenberry: the oregon petition? >> yes. >> hockenberry: the 14-year-old petition is not exactly an exclusive club. a bachelor of science degree is all it takes to get you on the list. this document, skeptics claim, counters the scientific consensus on global warming. now, are they all scientists? >> yes. one-third of them have ph.d.s. look, they are not specialists in climate. >> hockenberry: well, some were celebrities and friends... >> eh... >> hockenberry: it's a time- honored tactic by the skeptics: authentic-looking documents and reports that don't stand up to independent scrutiny. singer also signed the oregon petition. this is not his first time going up against accepted science. >> hockenberry: was the science around chlorofluorocarbons hyped, the science around secondhand smoke hyped, the science around the ozone layer hyped, going back ten, 15, 20 years? >> i'm happy to discu
there's hundreds of us-- hundreds, thousands of us. look, 31,000 scientists and engineers signed a statement to the contrary to what you just read. >> hockenberry: the oregon petition? >> yes. >> hockenberry: the 14-year-old petition is not exactly an exclusive club. a bachelor of science degree is all it takes to get you on the list. this document, skeptics claim, counters the scientific consensus on global warming. now, are they all scientists? >> yes. one-third of...